Handbooks Update: September 23, 2014

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This team is responsible for coordinating all documentation initiatives around WordPress, including the handbooks and other general wordsmithing across the WordPress project.

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The documentation team holds weekly office hours and monthly Contributor Days on each Tuesday of the month in the #docs SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. channel. It’s also where you can contact the team at any time outside meetings.

Present today were @blobaugh, @sewmyheadon, and @topher1kenobe, with a few devhub peeps following along as we overlapped slightly. Logs are here.

PluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party handbook: Topher worked on section 8 (metadata) and section 9 (CPTs and taxonomies) and both are now at 100%. Ben will be out of town for the next two chats.
Theme handbook: No updates this week. Hopefully some more next week.
MigrationMigration Moving the code, database and media files for a website site from one server to another. Most typically done when changing hosting companies. update: A bunch of the plugin handbook has been migrated with more being migrated this week.

If you want to get involved in either handbook, please email any of us.

Plugin handbook: Ben Lobaugh
Theme handbook: Eric Amundson
General handbook inquiries: Sam Sidler

Again, we meet on Tuesdays at 20:00 UTC. Hope to see more people there!

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